Posted on 04/11/2016 2:07:42 PM PDT by NYer
How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
HOMILY OF HIS EMINENCE CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
I've posted this quote many times but it bears repeating, ping!
Bkmrk.
The best thing a true Catholic today can do is to flee this new religion like one would flee the plague.
God is not pleased with what has happened to His Church left behind to endure until the Second Coming.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14021
http://www.readcentral.com/book/Robert-Hugh-Benson/Read-Lord-of-the-World-Online
https://archive.org/details/lordoftheworld_1104_librivox
It’s in the public domain, so free versions are available.
In the meantime, to be replaced with?....
I would think a “true Catholic” would require those Sacraments that can only be found within the Church. How could one claim to be a “true Catholic” otherwise?
Among our many weapons is an almost fanatical devotion to the pope!
The ‘sacraments’ are now tainted as they’ve passed through the hands of heretics.
Ping
(1) pry as many people away from the Church as possible
(2) get the rest so obsessed with the sins of others "in high places" that they neglect prayer, charity, and the duties of their state in life.
You can see how easy it is for him to find allies in these projects.
Classic statement of Donatism, a 4th century heresy. Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it.
Yet Francis slobbers all over abortionists, globalists, enviro-genocidal maniacs, etc., etc. He can’t get enough of the one-worlders.
Spoken like a true Donatist.
"...I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And their number was so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings" (Diary 153).
Visions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven according to St. Faustina
Baptism. Confirmation. Holy Eucharist. Penance. Extreme Unction. Holy Orders. Marriage.
You seem to paint with a fairly broad brush. There are no honest priests left?
I’d respect Pope Che if he told me to read Camp of the Saints, but that ain’t never gonna happen.
I think that’s pretty darn plausible.
Freegards
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